Natural Capital

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures has published its first chapters as part of the Living Reference

The world’s wetlands are slipping away.

It’s been 50 years since an international treaty to protect wetlands was created but, around the world, wetlands are still disappearing three times faster than forests.

This is so powerful - the Great Green Wall. Visible from space, holding back the greatest desert on earth. I want to walk in these greens. Well, maybe one day...

We can manage it if we can map it. Just heard about this "Supply Chain Atlas" that German companies put together to show impacts on GHGs, air, land and water in 8 industries like chemicals, machinery and food.

Did you know there was a movie on the Great Green Wall? Walk with the people who fight it out here every day on the borders of habitable Africa. See the trailer here!

Now you really gotta ask yourself - what's this worth to you? Seals make a comeback on France's beaches.

Yep, we're still finding new species in places like Madagascar. But how much longer? Biodiversity decline is so stark and so high, next time we might miss this little guy before we even know he exists.

In three new reports, FAO and The Nature Conservancy share the potential of Nature-based Solutions in agriculture to deliver nutrition for people worldwide while restoring nature and the climate

New maps of global forest carbon flux offer fresh insights for action — “A ground-breaking global set of forest carbon flux maps, which have just been released in the journal Nature Climate Change and made publicly available on the Global Forest Watch website... The maps paint a picture not only of where carbon loss is occurring, but also what’s driving it: they disaggregate the contributions of commodity production, shifting cultivation, timber harvesting or fire. That additional information will help decision-makers determine what kind of intervention is necessary...”